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Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-11-03
THE SOLDIERS HOME.
Meetings of the Committees o
Arrangements.

VI -
Arrangements.
A business meeting OF the commit
tees to look after the interests Of Los
Angeles in the fight for the Soldiers
Home for the Pacific coast, was held
last evening in the rooms OF the Board
of Trade, Mayor Workman presiding.
The committee on reception and en-
tertainment consists OF Mayor Work
man lex officio), Eugene Germain, A.
Willhartitz, JIM. Gym, j .Frankenfield,
H.H. Boyce ,and Gen. Nelson Antilles.
All these gentlemen were present last
night except General Miles. The COM
mittee resolved to have engrossed a
formal invitation to the managers of
the home to visit Los Angeles and to
forward it to General Franklin. The
resolution passed by the committee
read as follows:
That this committee extend a COR
dial invitation to the Board of Man
ayers of the Soldiers Home to visit
Los Angeles and accept the hospitality
OF our citizens.
Resolved, That the invitation be
carefully prepared, handsomely en-
crossed and signed by the members Of
the committee.
Resolred, That the Board OF Super
visors, City Council, Board of Trade.
and other bodies be requested to send
similar invitations to the Board OF
Managers direct, SO that they may be
assured of cordial welcome here.
This committee will meet this morn
ing at Mayor Workman's office and
proceed thence to the military head
quarters OF General Miles.
The committee on subscription, which
consists of Mayor Workman, S. M.
Perry, o. II. Violet, H. G. Otis, G.
M. Fairbanks, L p. Johnson, +. NJ.
Hamilton, w. N. Monroe, I. E.
Rowan, w. o. Gilbert and G. F.
O'Dea, also met last evening and a
part OF the whole committee being
present. They reported that sub
scription list had been prepared and
that it would be soon given to the
public for signatures. Their next
meeting will be on Monday evening
at the Board OF Trade office.
Secretary Lawrence of the Board OF
Trade, who is also Secretary of the
committees, has receiveda a letter from
Captain Blanding. He says that the
Managers will arrive in San Francisco
on November 18th and will then come
to Los Angeles, in case they accept
the invitation from this city.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-11-03
that has been made in the more
southern county of Fresno.
FRESNO COUNTY

Il
southern county OF Fresno.
FRESNO COUNTY.
No county in the district can show
such wonderful development in sc
short time as Fresno. At the time
Of my last report the acreage of this
county was placed at $500 acres
while now it will be seen from the
statistics appended to this report that
nearly $1,000 acres are planted in
raisin and wine grapes, of which $500
acres are in raisin grapes the balance
in wine grapes. The profits from
both branches of the industry are
satisfactory to the growers.
The vintage OF last season amounted
to about 100000 gallons of wine,
nearly all of which has been sold at
remunerative prices. The vintage Of
1887 will be much heavier, as large
acreage OF young vines will be in
bearing. A large part OF the young
plant in Fresno county is devoted ex-
ciusivefy to Port, Sherry and Brandy
varieties, it being generally conceded
that the San Joaquin valley will excel
in these products. Fresno county
will undoubtedly be the banner raisin
producing county of the State, the
climate being exceedingly well
adapted to the curing Of the grape.
THE RAfslN INDUSTRY.
The raisen pack Of 1853 was about
25O 900 boxes, and the amount will be
materially increased this season. The
profits of the business are large, and
it is one particularly attractive to peo-
of limited means, the heavy invest
ments necessary to the wine business
not being required. Many growers
sell their product to the packers in
the sweat boxes, and realize hand
some income from small acreage OF
vines. An immense number OF small
vineyards will be planted this winter
in raisin grapes throughout Fresno
county.
A few years ago the only vineyards
in the county were in the immediate
vicinity of Fresno City, but lately large
tracts of land both north and south
have been brought under irrigation
and planted in vines.
The vineyards around Minturn and
MADEIRA, in the northern part OF the
county, are devoted almost exclusively
to wine growing, while around Fowler,
Selma and Kingsburg, on the south,
the preference is given to raisins:
Appended to this report will be found
a complete list Of the wine growers OF
Fresno county, together with the
number OF acres and varieties of vines
planted by each. Had it been prac-
ticable should have made similar
list from the other counties in my dis
trict, but the acreage of vines did not
warrant the expenditure which would
have been required to canvass so large
a territory.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-11-03
Last Nigns,s Alarm.

About 8 o'clock last night the fire
alarm bell tolled five times, then it
stsuck indicating that the alarm was
turned in from box 21, then it indi-
Gated box 23, and closed its intricate
alarm with box Is. The sole cause
OF these varied directions for the fire
department was the burning of pail
Of lace curtains in house on Downey
avenue, in East Los Angeles. Damage
nominal.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-11-03
TELEGRAPHIC.
lcoNrINuEn FROM FIRST PAGE.
FOREIGN FIELDS.
Minister Phelps Speaks on POPu-
lnr Education.

lar Education.
LONDON, November 2.-The fiftl
anniversary OF the Mechanics Insti
tute at Nottingham was celebrated
with a banquet this evening. The
Duke of st. Albans presided and Mr.
Phelps, United States Minister, was
one of the guests. In speech
Phelps said that popular education
gave labor strength and skill. The
days OF unskilled labor were fast
passing away, and better work is de-
manded of all classes, in accordance
with the increasing knowledge of the
age.
EMPEROR WILLIAMS AILMENT.
BERLIN, November q Emperor
William is not yet able to rise. The
disturbing symptoms are abatlng, but
the pain at the base Of the spine con-
tinues especially acute with any
movement.
LONDON, November 2.--The report
that the British bark Temple Bar
foundered in the British Channel dur
ing yesterdays storm and all the crew
were lost is untrue.
LIBERALS FORGING AHEAD.
LONDON, November 2.--The munich
pal elections of England are com
pleted. The returns show gain for
the Liberals of IS.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-11-03
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
interesting Items of Events nj
Home and Abroad.

Jenny Lind, the celebrated Swedish
singer, is dead, aged 6S years.
Judge Sullivan yesterday morning
set the second trial of Robert F. Nor
row for Monday, November 14th.
Lieutenant Hem, owner of the
Yacht Galatea, says that he will take
his boat to- America again in the
spring, and take part in all of next
seasons regattas.
William O'Brien and Vaudeville
were quietly removed from the jail at
Cork yesterday morning, and taken
away in special train to Jail at Tulla-
moore, fifty miles from Dublin.
Unwonted precautions were taken
by the French authorities on Saturday
to protect the German officials, who
were surveying the scene of the recent
frontier shooting incident. The ut
most courtesy was shown both sides.
Ogilvie, OF the Geological Survey,
who will winter in Northern British
Columbia. will take observations for
the purpose of defining the 141st
meridian, which will form a basis for
determining the boundary line be-
tween Alaska and British Columbia.
The Territorial Board of Land Com
missioners met yesterday, at Prescott,
Ariz., and opened the bids for the sale
OF $140 900 OF Territorial 6 per cent.
bonds. Three bids were received,
two for one-half OF per cent. premi-
um, the other par. None were ac-
| cepted.
A Folsom special says: "Lieu
tenant r. J. Murphy, of the Fol-
som prison staff, is completely re-
| covering from the effects of the
wounds inflicted by convict Smidt.
Smidt regrets that he did not succeed
in killing his victim, so as to be
transferred to the county jail te
answer the charge of murder" He
would expect to escape from the
county Jail.
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Prescott and Arizona
Central Railroad was held at Prescott
on Tuesday. 7. S. Butler, I. S. Bull
lock. L. II. Wilson, II. G. Mutt, VIM
N. Kelly, N. o. Manchester, w. E.
Hazeltine, Levy Bashford and E. E.
Smith were elected a Board of Direc
tors: T. S. Bullock, President; T. j
Butler, Vice-President; VIM. N. Kelly
Secretary; w. E. Hazeltine, Treas
urer Hon. Sumner Howard, Solicitor
Mail advices from the Hawaiian Is
lands are to the effect that the Ha
waiian government has decided to cedt
Pearl river harbor to the United States
as coaling station. But provisions
are made that in case the reciprocity
treaty is abrogated, the American gov
4 ernment shall relinquish the harbor
The harbor in question is near Homo
| luln ,sand is regarded as the best in tht
Hawaiian group Whether the harbol
will be accepted, with the conditions
attached, is not known.
The London Daily News, comment
ing on the arbitration memorial, says
President Cleveland's reply to the
| British delegation, without absolutel,
committing his government to tn,
establishment of permanent tribunal
shows every disposition to entertain
J the scheme. :.
The Standard says: The reply j
laconic and perhaps a trifle oraculai
but we gather from the caution ex
hibited that he does not see his way
1.-The immediate maturity of such treaty
r 1.-THE deputation itself can scarcel
have failed to discover that the Pres
dents Language contained a covert re
buke to their too sanguine hopes.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-11-03
Alameda County, Cal.
About 1000 Acres Of the hest Land
OF THE ROSE BLACK TRACT,

About 1000 Acres Oh the hest Lana
OF THE ROSE BLACK TRACT,
ABIDING the beautiful tree-embowered town
of Pleasan ON, are now for the first time
offered for sale in small subdivisions. The
soil of the Black ranch has long been well
known as equal to the best in California.
That of the Rose Tract is equally good.
The land offered is all moist, but never
OverflOWSs
For Fruit, onehalf of this land has no
superior, as surrounding orchards will at
test. 1t is deep, well-drained, alluvial
loan, which has produced ton OF wheat to
the acre in the dryest season ever seen in
this State. Two tons of barley to the acre 1s
a common crop on this land.
For Vegetables and kindred crops
! without irrigation, it has no equal any
where. Hop fields, blackberry,
strawberry and asParaE us beds, ana
rOts, squash and pumpk Inns, OF coun-
| try-fair size, are now growing, or being
| harvested on the 1and. A common crop OF
potatoes is 200 sacks per acre; OF carrots,
| rs to 100 tons other products in proper
ton. Is unequalled for the sugar beet. AL
| falfa produces four crops year.
| There is not an acre of any but the very
best land offered. The tracts have been
win be sold in small plots, of from five
acres upwards.
No better tract of land has ever been sub
divided in California. American families
| are deriving cOm10rtaDle support from
| two or three acres of this land.
| This is ga Veritable Garden Spot
of the Earth,,' where a generous soil
and every needed climatic condition, yield
results which seem almost fabulous.
No dead water, no malaria, no f0gs.
| Livermore valley nestles among the nigh.
| rugged ridges of the Coast Range, and Is
\ exposed to neither the cold winds of the
coast, nor the great heat of the interior
The climate is as near perfection as this
world affords.
But AZ miles from San Francisco, on Liv.
ermore Division OF G. P. R. R. Two mails
daily. Telegraph and telephone facilities
Free carriages at Pleasanton, at all times
to convey perties over the land. 1t may al
so be seen by joining the excursion tc
Pleasanton, Thursday, Nov. Sd.
For further maps, or further particulars,
| address,
| STANLEY g. BARTLETT,
Pleasanton, Cal.
| Or call on E. R. LILIENTHAL, 100 Front
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-11-03
AID ASKED FOR.
A knights of Labor Appeal for
striking Miners.


striking Miners.
PHILADELPHIA, November 2.-The
General Executive Board of the
Knights of Labor has just issued a
circular to be read at a meet
ing of all the assemblies, appeal
ing for contributions in aid of the
striking anthracite miners. Accompa-
nying the circular is a personal ap-
peal from General Master Workman
Powderly. He says that this is the
first time that he has been called
upon to appear before the order in
this capacity. He says that the
eyictions in Ireland cannot outrival
the scenes in the coal fields of Penn.
sylvania.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-11-03
Religious Instruction Privileged,

WASHINGTON, November "A dele
CATION headed by ex-Justice Strong,
representing several religious and
missionary societies, called on the
President to-day to urge the modifi-
cation of the order prohibiting the
use of the Indian language in Indian
schools. The President replied that
the order is not intended to forbid re-
ligious instruction in the Indian lam
guage, 4,
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-11-03
Van ualtren pue To-day.

SAN Francisco, November 2.-Man-
ager Robinson, of the Greenhood &
Morans, to-day received a telegram
from George Van Haltren stating that
he would arrive in Oakland to-mor-
row. Van will play right field for the
Greenhoods in their game with the
Atlas on Sunday. Ns
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-11-03
Hard to secure "a Jury.

WOODLAND, November "A venire
of 1S5 jurors was exhausted in endeav-
oring to secure jury in the Harlan
case and but seven were, obtained. A
special venire has been ordered for
Thursday.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-11-03
SOUTHERN PACIFIC DEPOT.

City Council.
The plans for the new Southern Pa
cific passenger depot have arrived, and
the work will at once be commenced
and pushed to as early an completion
as is compatible with the magnitude
of the specifications. The depot will
he situated on Alameda street and
Wolfskill avenue, and will extend
from Fourth to Sixth street. The
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-11-03
BRYANT, ARNOLD & CO.,
Milwaukee Furniture Company,

Have opened their elegant salesroom at the
corner of FOURTH and MAIN, with full
line of FURNITURE, UPHOLSTERY, etc.
Samples already set up in their Fourth street
store. On account of their store on Main
treet not being completed, goods for the next
fifteen days will be sold at great reduction
as they are arriving faster than storage can,
found. Now is the time to buy cheap
All goods guaranteed to give satisfaction.
OF I'm
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-11-03

Or call on E. R. LILIENTHAL, 100 Front
street. San Francisco. octl4-1m
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-02-18
THE LARGEST SEWER IN THE
WORLD.
Medical News.

It is said their il now being built
in Washington, ID g., sewer which
is larger by seven feet than any
other sewer in the world. In its
smallest part it is largar than the
largest Of the sewers in Paris. For
over 1000 feet it is Il circular sewer
of 90 feet in diameter. There is con-
nected with it a sewer of 5000 feet
or nearly one mile in length, Of 20
feet in diameter. A fully equipped
palace car, locomotive and all could
hc run through it without difficulty.
This enormous sewer is intended to
drain the immense water shed lying
to the north of the city. Besides
that it will carry to the eastern
branch of the Potomac all the con-
tents of the smallrr system of sewers
in the northern part of the city. 1t
will take probably year to complete
the work. The Boundary street
sewer. with its connecting systems,
will cost when completed " r $780,
900.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-02-18
FAST BUTTER-MAKING
Milk Which Completed Its Journey to
Butter in Just Two Hours.
Chicago Times.

AS illustrating the possibilities in
the dairy since inventive genius has
been called in to help the dairyman.
Prof G. H. Whitcher, of the New
Hampshire Agricultural college,
gives the following account Of an ex-
pertinent recently made there: "Since
the establishment of the creamery
at Hanover it had frequently occur
red to me that the mornings milk
might be transformed into butter for
the breakfast-table the same morn
ing, and on a recent Saturday it was
decided to try the experiment. AT
4:30A. NJ. the help at the college farm
were in readiness to commence milk
ing, and at 8 o clock the sixty pounds
Of warm new milk were on the scales
at the creamery, which is located
some sixty rods away. At 5:l5
steam was turned on and the engines
were set in motion-the machinery
which was to do in ten minutes what
nature demanded five hours to com
plete. Five minutes later the sepa.
rator was at its full speed of eight
thousand revolutions per minute,
and the milk was turned on; ten
minutes later forty-ive pounds OF
perfectly sweet skim milk and fifteen
pounds of equally sweet cream were
the existing representatives of the
original sixty pounds Of milk. AT
5:45 the cream, cooled to 56 degrees,
was in the small test churn; at $40
the butter had parted company with
the buttermilk and was ready for
the salt; at $50 it had assumed the
form of one-fourth pound prints; in
ten minutes more it was on the
breakfast table at the college farm
house, thus completing the journey
from milk to butter in just two hours,
and only two and a-half hours from
the time that milking was COM
menced. 1t may seem little unac-
countable to those who have never
given any thought to the subject OF
mechanical separation OF cream tfrar
butter from the mornings milk may
contribute toward the completion of
the breakfast Of the same day,
scarcely two hours after it is MIXED,
vet such is the result of our trial,
and such is the triumph ofinventive
genius over the plodding ways OF
Father Time. By the old-time
methods from SO to 4S hours inter
vened between milking and churn-
ing, and by the cold setting in pat
ent cans only part Of the cream
can be obtained in three hours,
while the average time is "a hours,
but with the new system all the
cream is obtained from 100 pounds
of milk in from eight to ten minutes.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-02-18
PLUCK AND PUSH.

A. w. Hawks, in BALTIC. Weekly
Young man, we want TO talk to
you ab ,ut three minutes about those
two words.
They spell success.
You are probably aware of the fact
that
1t is not birth, nor blood, nor clan,
But the get up and get that makes tho
man.
Any fool can start at the top OF q
ladder and fall to the bottom.
But pluck and push will help the
wise man TO climb step by step to
the top of the ladder and stay there.
Pluck is luck.
Pluck is taking advantage of
luck.
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And with pluck and push to help us,
We can get there every time.
Have you chosen business9
Have the pluck to stick to it
through thick and thin.
And push it.
If you have no trade-no occupa-
tion-take the advice of bald head
ed man and get one quick.
Better drive a garbage cart than
loaf.
Pluck does not stand around on
the stree corners.
Push don't watch the want column
until something comes along that
just suits.
Want may come first.
Pluck is not looking for a position
as son-in-law to some rich man.
Push is no rich wife's slave.
Tie on to this team.
Hitch them up right in front
handle the lines judiciously-keep
them down to the work-keep
inching, and if you don't win the
race you will at least get your share
of the gate money.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-02-18
aGUNBOAT GREEN"
Taunted by Comrades for Showing the
White Feather, He Mounts the
Bresstworks and Shoots
Seventy-Two Federa1s.

In Company E, Of the Thirty-Grst
Louisiana, there was man nainc,l
Green. The boys went into service
in the spring of '62, and for some
time had very little to do. Green
soon made himself one OF the most
popular men in camp. He was some
thing of humorist and his !airnts
as story teller made him always
entertaining.
When the Thirty-first shifted gun
powder for the first time, Green
turned up missing. He had fit
and was unable to handle gun. In
the second engagement the poor fel-
low had a spasm and was again kept
away from the front. The soldiers
begun to have their suspicions, and
when their unfortunate comrade fell
. victim to rheumatism on the eve
of another fight, they spoke out in
pretty plain terms.
Green was 50 deviled by the boys
that he was driven nearly crazy,
Just about that time there was . call
for volunteers to 60 up the Yazoc
>l~~k ~~wo1s<s~. IT.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-02-18

READING CHARACTER BY
FEET.

European papers recently received
state that a Frenchman named
Garre has discoved a new method OF
reading character. He does not cx-
anime the "bumps" on the head. the
contour of the features or the lines
of the hand. He looks at the dis
carded boot, shoe or slipper last
worn by the individual whose char
acter is to he delineated. He dt sig
mattel the result or his invcstiga-
tions as .scrapology," word not
found in any dictionary, but which
conveys its own Specification. Many
persons declare that he is able to
delineate character by means OF an
old shoe in manner that is per-
fectly surprising.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-02-18
sents our old national dag as it ex
,afad from The time of Richard until

listed from the time of Richard until
the death of Elizabeth. This red
cross flag, Che banner OF St. George,
appears to have been chosen by the
Soldier King in honor of the saint
who was the patron of soldiers. 1t
remained for more than 400 years
the flag under which the English
warriors fought on land and on sea.
When James vi of Scotland sue
ceeded Elizabeth the Scotch had q
national flag. That also was q
cross, but it was shaped differently
from that Of st. George, and was
known as the cross Of St. Andrew.
The ground of the Scotch flag was
blue, and its cross was white. To
mark the union of the two King
doms under one Sovereign the ma
tional banner underwent a change,
although Scotland still retained its
separate Parliament. In the new
flag the two banners ofScotland and
England were united. There ap.
peared in it the oblique white cross
of St. Andrew on blue ground, and
the red cross of St. George on q
white margin, worked in the blue
field. The King was accustomed to
sign his name in the French form of
James, Jacques" He was, in fact,
the Union Jacques, or, as we i'm
properly pronounce it, Jack. For
local purposes the Scotch still con-
tinued to use the white St. Andrews
cross on the blue field, and the Eng
lish the red cross on the white field.
1t was stated by royal proclamation
in 1900 that whereas some differ
ence hath arisen between our sub
jects of South and North Britain.
travelling by seas, about the bearing
of their flags, for the avoiding Of all
such contentious hereafter, we have,
with the advice Of our Council, or
dered that from henceforth all our
subjects of this isle and the King
dom of Great Britain, and the men,
bers thereof, shall bear in their
maintop the Red Cross, commonly
called st. Georges Cross, and the
White Cross, commonly called St.
Andrews Cross, joined together, and
in their foretop our subjects of South
Britain shall wear the Red Cross
only, as they were wont; and our
subjects of North Britain in their
forctop the White Cross only. as
they were accustomed In 1907,
when the Scotch and English Leg
islatures were united, the distinctive
flags ceased to be used and the united
flags as arranged in 1606 became
the single ensign of the United
Kingdom. 1t was the sovereign
that made the union and established
the national flag, and an establish
ment of distinct Legislatures again
would not alter the flag Ireland
would take presumably for its local
ensign the red cross of st. Patrick.
This Irish banner ought to have ap-
peared in the Union flag Of 1906,
but it did not.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-02-18

The largest ship built on tIs
Clyde last year is an Oriental steam
er Of 6, 800 tons.
Wade's Fiber and Fabric reports
the invention of a machine to sew on
buttons. It is claimed that it will
perform the work OF four or five girls
and viii do it better, : because ;r
never sights its work, but puts y
inst The number Of stitches It :
cauqed for. II will sew on button :
With two or four holes equally well,
and At the rate OF six per minut'
With twelve stitches in each.